tomcat5 requires GCJ even though sun-java5-jre is installed

[Mike Vitale]

Clean Ubuntu Dapper installation on my HP laptop, with full Sun-Java5 installed.

[root@oftheother ~]$ dpkg -l | grep sun
ii sun-java5-bin 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
ii sun-java5-demo 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos
ii sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
ii sun-java5-jre 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
ii sun-java5-plugin 1.5.0-06-1 The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 5.0

[root@oftheother ~]$ apt-cache show sun-java5-jre
...
Provides: java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime

[root@oftheother ~]$ apt-cache show tomcat5
...
Depends: kaffe (>= 2:1.1.6-3) | java-gcj-compat-dev (>= 1.0.41-1) | java2-runtime, libtomcat5-java (>= 5.0.30-9), adduser (>= 3.34), apache-utils (>= 1.3.33-1) | apache2-common

[root@oftheother ~]$ sudo apt-get install tomcat5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apache2-common apache2-utils gcj-4.1-base gij-4.1 java-gcj-compat libbcel-java libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-collections-java
  libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-dbcp-java libcommons-digester-java libcommons-el-java libcommons-fileupload-java libcommons-launcher-java
  libcommons-logging-java libcommons-modeler-java libcommons-pool-java libgcj-common libgcj7 libgcj7-jar liblog4j1.2-java libmx4j-java libregexp-java
  libservlet2.4-java libtomcat5-java
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc gcj-4.1 libgcj7-awt libbcel-java-doc libcommons-beanutils-java-doc libcommons-collections-java-doc libcommons-collections3-java-doc lib32gcj7-dbg
  jython libapache-mod-jk libapache2-mod-jk tomcat5-webapps tomcat5-admin
Recommended packages:
  libgcj7-src
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2-common apache2-utils gcj-4.1-base gij-4.1 java-gcj-compat libbcel-java libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-collections-java
  libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-dbcp-java libcommons-digester-java libcommons-el-java libcommons-fileupload-java libcommons-launcher-java
  libcommons-logging-java libcommons-modeler-java libcommons-pool-java libgcj-common libgcj7 libgcj7-jar liblog4j1.2-java libmx4j-java libregexp-java
  libservlet2.4-java libtomcat5-java tomcat5
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If I have sun-java5-jre installed, which provides java2-runtime (as we discovered in Bug #56497), why does installing tomcat5 also install GCJ packages?

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

libservlet2.4-java does not offer java2-runtime as an alternative to java-gcj-compat.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Yes, libservlet2.4-java seems to draw gcj dependencies when installing tomcat5.
This is not a tomcat5 bug (anymore).

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Syncing libservlet2.4-java from Debian untable should solve this issue.

libservlet2.4-java (5.0.30-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * kaffe compiler transition
   * Bumped debhelper version to fix linda error
   * Standards-Version 3.6.2 (no changes)
   * Depend on kaffe | java1-runtime | java2-runtime as this is
     currently still policy (closes: #345338)
   * Added myself to uploaders

 -- Wolfgang Baer <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:28:08 +0100

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

This is now probably duplicate of Bug #50811.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

Fixed on Edgy by libservlet2.4-java 5.0.30-3ubuntu1 upload.

libservlet2.4-java (5.0.30-3ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian unstable.
  * Build using java-gcj-compat-dev.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:30:52 +0200

libservlet2.4-java (5.0.30-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * kaffe compiler transition
  * Bumped debhelper version to fix linda error
  * Standards-Version 3.6.2 (no changes)
  * Depend on kaffe | java1-runtime | java2-runtime as this is
    currently still policy (closes: #345338)
  * Added myself to uploaders

 -- Wolfgang Baer <email address hidden> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:28:08 +0100

[Mike Vitale (ubuntu-bugs-mikevitale)]

Will this change be ported into Dapper?

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

I'll open a Dapper task for this, so backporters can review if it's okay to backport the libservlet2.4-java package.

For what it's worth, libservlet2.4-java 5.0.30-3ubuntu1 builds cleanly on Dapper chroot. I don't know if kaffe compiler transition brings any unwanted problems and I'm currently unable to test this.

[Anthony Durity (anthony-durity)]

<quote>
Syncing libservlet2.4-java from Debian untable should solve this issue.
libservlet2.4-java (5.0.30-3) unstable; urgency=low
</quote>

Sorry about this but how do you sync just this package from debian unstable without bringing all of debian unstable in? Thanks.

[Matti Lindell (mlind)]

@Anthony
You'll have to rebuild libservlet2.4-java source package.

[Mike Vitale (ubuntu-bugs-mikevitale)]

Think it should be ok to close this one now...

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

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